Bakers Scale

Today is the first day of my second trimester and Johnson & Wales University. Hopefully I'll do better keeping this blog this term.

At 7am I reported to room 255 for my first day of "Introduction to Baking & Pastry." There are some familiar faces from last term and quite a few new ones; it should be interesting to see how we mesh as a group. Chef Gronert is incredibly well versed in the subject at hand and I am looking forward to learning from him. Today we made whole wheat rolls, it was actually interesting to see how you manipulate the dough to get all sorts of shapes of product. Once we were elbow deep in dough the day flew by!

A quick break left me just enough time to grab a text book for my next class and a quick drink.

My afternoon was spent in "Introduction to Nutrition." This class will run two days a week for the whole trimester and is considered an academic class, which means we sit at desks and don't get the fun of playing in a kitchen.

All in all... it wasn't too bad for the first day of the new term.

I'm feeling rather old school and somewhat festive today so I think that the drink of the day shall be the ever so hip Champagne Cocktail!!

You will need:
champagne flutes
muddler, spoon (something to crush the cube with)
sugar cubes (one for each flute)
bitters (angostura bitters are my brand of choice)
bubbly of your choice (champagne, cava, prosecco, as long as it bubbles it will work!)

How to:
drop the sugar cube into the glass and splash a few (3 or 4) drops of bitters on top of it
crush the cube and the bitters together
add champagne
drink!